[IIAS] The Update | Dec 2024

Our first events in January 2025 are an online/lunch lecture and an online book talk. You are welcome to both. HAB has some interesting updates.

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, please find our last Update of this year. Wishing you a successful and happy New Year! Events Hybrid (Lunch) Lecture - IIAS Urban Asia Presentation Series Relocating the Tamil Yoginis: The Shifting Status of a Temple Town Speaker: Emma Stein, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, Washington, DC, USA Date & Time: 14 Jan. 2025, 12:30 - 15:00 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CET) Venue: Online via Zoom and IIAS Conference Room, Leiden, The Netherlands Online Book Talk The Gulf Migrant Archive in Kerala. Reading Borders and Belonging Speaker: Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil (Manipal Centre for Humanities of the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India) Date & Time: 30 Jan 2025, 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Amsterdam Time (CET) Venue: Online via Zoom Watch the Video Recording Academic Ontologies: Film/making as Research Strategy (19.11.2024) Three IIAS fellows discuss using film and filmmaking as critical lenses in their research across Indonesia, the Netherlands, India, and China. (Organised by HAB and the IIAS Fellowship programme.)   Humanities Across Borders - Update Latest Blog Africa-Asia Preparation Trip to Dakar Last month, some of us visited Dakar (Senegal) to prepare for the upcoming Africa-Asia 3: A New Axis of Knowledge (AA3) ConFest (in 2025). We met with our local partners, Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) and Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) and explored potential festival venues and community-based collaborators. HAB Academic Director Aarti Kawlra shares some of her photographs and provides a small window into Dakar's academic and cultural landscape.  Documentary  Indigo as Pedagogy Field School (2024) A short documentary (11 min.) about this five-day field school where faculty, communities of practice and students from Africa and Asia collaborated in the co-production of knowledge about indigo. Resources Did you know that HAB has a series of resources on its website that are available for free use? Have a look! www.humanitiesacrossborders.org/resources. IIAS is closed from December 25, 2024. We reopen on January 2, 2025. The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a global research organisation and knowledge exchange platform based in Leiden, The Netherlands. Across multiple international platforms and programmes, IIAS promotes critical, humanistic, and collaborative work on, with, in, and beyond Asia. The Institute's academic strategy coalesces around five interrelated core priorities: Research, Education & Pedagogy, Civic Engagement, Network Building, and Communication & Dissemination. IIAS | P.O. Box 9500 | 2300 RA | Leiden | www.iias.asia | Contact Copyright © 2024 International Institute for Asian Studies, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our mailing list at https://www.iias.asia Update preferences | Unsubscribe from this list | Forward this message Our mailing address is: International Institute for Asian Studies Witte Singel 27A Leiden, 2311 BG Netherlands Add us to your address book